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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 10
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A little folly destroys the reputation of the wise and honorable—The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious—A fool is full of words.
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Dead</span> flies cause the ointment of the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR perfumer (ointment-maker).">apothecary</a> to send forth a stinking savour: <i>so doth</i> a little <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/10/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 7: 11 (1, 11-12); Eccl. 9: 18.">folly</a> him that is in reputation for wisdom <i>and</i> honour.
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A wise man’s heart <i>is</i> at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
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Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth <i>him,</i> and he saith to every one <i>that </i>he <i>is</i> a fool.
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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
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There is an evil <i>which</i> I have seen under the sun, as an error <i>which</i> proceedeth from the ruler:
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Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.
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I have seen <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 19: 10.">servants</a> upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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He that diggeth a pit shall <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 30: 60.">fall</a> into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
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Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; <i>and</i> he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
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If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom <i>is</i> profitable to direct.
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Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 10: 32.">words</a> of a wise man’s mouth <i>are</i> gracious; but the lips of a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/10/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 28 (28-29); 2 Ne. 19: 17; D&C 35: 7.">fool</a> will swallow up himself.
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The beginning of the words of his mouth <i>is</i> foolishness: and the end of his talk <i>is</i> mischievous <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE extreme folly.">madness</a>.
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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
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&#182; Woe to thee, O land, when thy king <i>is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 3: 4 (4-5, 12).">child</a>, and thy princes eat in the morning!
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Blessed <i>art</i> thou, O land, when thy king <i>is</i> the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Word of Wisdom.">drunkenness</a>!
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&#182; By much <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Laziness.">slothfulness</a> the building decayeth; and through <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/10/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Idleness.">idleness</a> of the hands the house droppeth through.
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&#182; A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all <i>things.</i>
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&#182; Curse not the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/10/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Citizenship; TG Kings, Earthly.">king</a>, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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